I always knew they were gonna make a Pokémon live-action movie, but I wasn't expecting a trailer so suddenly.

And even though I knew they were gonna make this live-action movie when they officially announced it since last year, I'm still having a hard time believing that they are really going to do it. When I learned about this, I told to my friends about it, and boy they were surprised by a lot just as well, never even expecting this.

Was your reaction because you weren't expecting a live-action Pokémon movie, or something else about this movie?

1. I wasn't expecting it
2. He looks so weird in that hat
3. His eyes are so dark it's freaky
4. PIKACHU A DETECTIVE!?!?!??! WHAT?

To be honest, I thought seeing his eyes with bright yellow iris and visible white-colored sclera was more weirder than the mostly usual pitch black. Talk about Baby-Doll Eyes (a move that Pikachu can't even learn).

As for this Detective Pikachu himself, there is some interesting factors to mention. You probably know that Pikachu is considered as the mascot of the Pokémon franchise, thus naturally a super popular character that makes sense to make him as the main protagonist of the film.

What is weird about this movie is that it does not mainly focus about competitive Battles since that's what is about to the core series, but instead it's about crime-solving mysteries, based on a spin-off game of the same name. It might be that they're making this film from that game because this iconic Pikachu can also talk (and not only say "pikachu"), but at least it's better than getting a live-action film based directly on the anime series--and I talking about the other Pikachu that travels with his trainer partner named Ash, which is not what I would want it in my opinion.

The idea for this movie might not be based on something completely from scratch, but I'm still looking forward to it.

@BeastlyCrawdad and @MyLittleGreenFriend
It seems that Pokémon is not the only one who was making live-action movie based off of their popular cartoon/anime video game. I don't know if you have heard of it, but there is another one already taking similar steps as well. For the sake of making the surprise even more dramatic, I have placed the movie poster and twitter source hidden in the spoiler tag.

@BeastlyCrawdad and @MyLittleGreenFriend
It seems that Pokémon is not the only one who was making live-action movie based off of their popular cartoon/anime video game. I don't know if you have heard of it, but there is another one already taking similar steps as well. For the sake of making the surprise even more dramatic, I have placed the movie poster and twitter source hidden in the spoiler tag.